When Homer talked about the “wine-dark” sea, do you think he had in mind a cascade of finance bros wearing identical navy blue suits as they swarm a university campus

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CFP: The Black Atlantic, Women, and the Majestic. Please submit individual paper proposals of up to 300 words with the title of the paper, name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), e-mail address, and a brief 2-page curriculum vitae, by email attachment to medren@pitt.edu. Please share widely

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In 30 days (inclusive counting) @oupress.bsky.social will be publishing _Selections from The Student's Catullus_, which Dan Garrison and I are very excited to share with the Catullus-loving public! Preorders are available at the link below! www.oupress.com/978080619739...

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Wanna introduce Roman trade to your class 🌍? I’ve noted it before but 1 of the most engaged activities I do all year is to have students make budgets from a salary I give them & using prices from Diocletian’s Price Edict (301 CE). Then they have to figure out how to ship it using Orbis.Stanford.edu.

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I do a similar exercise but have them plan a wedding banquet, & let them loan $ on their terms to their (salaries drawn by lottery) less financially privileged classmates. The amount of resentment that comes from sewer workers & laundresses towards the lawyers & wealthy farmers is always amazing.

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